Coin display holder



Nov. 20, 1945.

c. R. HONZA 2,389,312

COIN DI$PLAY HOLDER Filed April 28, 1945 Patented Nov. 20, 1945 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE f COIN DISPLAY HGLDEB Charles R. Honza, Bethel, Kans. Application April 28, 1945, Serial No.:590,9.=13

2 Claims. (01. zooora) My 1- ention relates to display .holders, for use holding and displaying them.

improvements in coin by coin collectors for the coins collected by One of the objectsof my invention is the provision of a novel. coin holder of the kind described of transparent non-frangible material impervious to air or moisture, in which a coin can be covered and sealed and protected from tarnishing, which will hold the coin rattling and thus protected from being nitched or scratched, which tarnishing, nitching and ser tching reduces the collector value of a coin,

and which holds the coin so that it is completely visible and can be examined at all points.

A further object of my invention is the provision of a novel coin holder of the kind described, which is simple, cheap to make, strong, durable and ethcient in its operation.

The novel features of my invention are herein-' after fully described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawing which illustrates my invention,

Fig. 1 is a plan view, partly broken away, showing one form of my improved coin holder adapted for holding a coin of less diameter than the diameter of the cavity of the cap shaped member.

Fig. 2 is a plan view, partly broken away, of the holder shown in Fig. 1, showing a coin operatively held therein.

Fig. 3 is a section on of Fig. 1.

Fig. 4 is an edge elevation of the holder shown in F 1.

Fig. 5 is a plan view, inverted, of the cap shaped member shown in Figs. 1 to 4.

Fig. 6 is an inverted view of a modified form of the cap shaped member devoid of projections on its inner periphery.

Fig. '7 is a central vertical sectional view of the cap shaped member shown in Fig. 6.

Fig. 8 is a plan view, partly broken away, of another modified form of cap shaped holder.

Fig. 9 is a plan view, showing a base member supporting a plurality of cap shaped members, adapted each to hold a coin, and which may be of the forms shown in Figs. 1, 6 and 8.

Similar characters of reference designate similar parts in the diiierent views.

Referring to Figs. designates the circular body of a cap shaped member having flat smooth parallel upper and lower sides, and having at its lower end an outer peripheral flange 2.

The under side of the body I has a circular the plane of the line 3-3 from edgewise movement and cavity 3 having on its periphery at one side of its diameter two spaced apart projections 4, resilient and diverging fromeach other, as shown in 7 Figs. 1 and 5, and integral with the body 3.

fhe body I is composed of transparent nonfrangible material, which is impervious to air or water, and is, preierablmmolded from a plastic material termed by the trade Lucite.

The cap shaped member is its cavity 3, a coin 5, Fig. 2, having a thickness not greater than the depth of the cavity 3, and having a diameter less than the diameter of the cavity but such-that, when one edge bears against v the periphery of the cavity at the side opposite to the projections lgthe opposite edge of the coin 5 will press against and bend and hold under tension the projections l, as shown in Fig. 2, thus holding the coin from edgewise movement.

After the coin .5 is inserted operatively in the cap shaped member I, as. shown in Fig. 2, there is fastened to the under side of the cap. shaped member I, one side of a flat sheet-like base .memher 6, which holds the coin 5 in the cap shaped member. Such fastening may be effected with an adhesive substance, such as glue, which will tightly seal the joint between the cap shaped member and the base member 6, and prevent the passage therethrough of air or moisture, and so protecting The projections 4 being held under tension by the coin 5, the coin will be held from edgewise movement and from being scratched or nicked. As the cap shaped member I and the base member 6 are transparent, the coin 5 can be plainly seen in all of its parts.

As the two members i and 6 which hold the coin 5 are impervious to air or moisture, and the joint between will be retained for an indefinite being tarnished, nicked, scratched or otherwise injured.

In the form shown in Fig. of the cap shaped member 1 cap shaped member shown in Figs. 1, 2, 4 and 5, excepting that the projections 4', corresponding in function to the projections 4, incline toward each other.

When a coin 5, shown in dotted lines in Fig. 8, is mounted in the cap shaped member, with one edge bearing against the periphery of the cavity opposite the spaced apart projections 4', and its opposite edge bearing tions 4', the latter will be bent and held under tension, thus holding the coin 5 from edgewise movement. After the coin is mounted in the 8, the construction corresponds to the adapted to hold in against the projec member I, as just described, the base member 6 may be fastened to coverits open side, by adhesive material, as glue, the same as with the material impervious to air or moisture and havcap shaped member I in Fig. 1.' v

In the form shown in Figs. 6 and 7, the cap in it a. circular cavity having on its periphery shaped member I is constructed the same as the tended for use in holding coins, as some United 1 and having a. diameter less than that of said therein will be snugly fitted therein, and will, therefore, not have any edgewise movementin under tension said projections, thereby holding the holder I r the coin from edgewise movement,

The same material is used to form the member 2. In a 'coin holder of the kind described, in

fastened in the same manner to a. bese member or moisture and having two opposite parallel flat jections, its opposite edge will press againstand storage and ready examination of the coins supor moisture, and adapted to have one side fest- O'ther modifications of my invention, within 40 coin has been operatively placed in said cdvity,

CHARLES R. HONZA. 

